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Pimping Out a New House
Jason Michael Perry writes "I just got pre-approved to buy some gutted property in New Orleans. A lot of the houses I'm looking at are blank canvases that need new wiring, new walls, new everything. I've always dreamed of a high-tech house that says my name when I walk in the door and now is my chance to get a close as I can with current technology. So I'm looking for ideas to pimp out a newly renovated house with all the best technology. If you had a blank canvas to start with, what would you do? Run CAT-5 or fiber optics? Build a closet for servers and A/V equipment? Build a 7.1 speaker system into the living room walls and ceilings? Install automated lights and intercom (with support for Apple equipment)? How about appliances, the kitchen, and other spots... what cool tech can I use there? My only rules and requirements are support for the four Macs I have in the house, and reasonable support for technology on the fringes."
Build flood wall/stilts for the house (or more realistically, Flood Insurance).
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Demolish the property and stick a nice sized Yacht on top of supports right where the house used to be.
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Panic room.
Don't forget that the basement will need a pool with sharks. With freaking laser beams on their heads...
Oh, sorry. You're pimpng your house, not building an evil lair. Never mind. Big hat with a feather should do.
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Don't you mean "Jeffries Tubes?"
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That and the prehensile tail you may grow after a few years of living there...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
I think that first of all you need to decide whether the house going to be mono hull or double hull. A double hull is more stable in large swells and you can make a nice open living room on the bridge.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
(double)(float) house;
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
I can't say that I would "speak as an expert," and anyone who can should feel free to correct me, but as I'm leaving New Orleans in a day or so, would think that covering the bottom portions of a first floor wall with water-resistant sheet rock, aka "green board" would do wonders in the event of another flood, and possibly save you the trouble of gutting the entire house again. Of course, I'm renting in the Garden District, and don't really have to worry about flooding anyway. I presume you're looking at slightly lower elevations. As for the network, go wireless and don't secure it. No one else does, and I haven't paid for my severe abuse of bandwidth via streaming video and torrent downloads since the day I got here. :)
While you're at it, leave the default password unchanged on your router. QoS is a wonderful tool for the above adventures.
brilliant. Use your Jeffries Tubes to lay your Stevens Tubes.
Step one would be to look up a dictionary and find out what the word "pimp" (n or v) means.
Here's a typical one:
One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer. intr.v. , pimped , pimping , pimps
Now if the OP really wants to do that with his new home, I guess that's up to him, but I wonder how many of us are qualified to advise him...
fart jokes
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If you start adding all kinds of technical gizmos and gadgets to your house, you will become a slave to maintaining them.
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